About
Akshay has spent over eight years as a software engineer at Indian consumer startups including Flipkart and Swiggy, where he was an early engineer on Flipkart Commerce Cloud.
Founder at WuriYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Akshay went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Wuri's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Akshay can intro founders to Wuri's investors below.
Wuri's investors · 1
Co-founders at Wuri
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Pratik GangwalFounder
Experience
- ThoughtSpotStaff Engineercurrent2025 — presentBengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Career Break2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Wuri (YC W24)Co-Founder2023 — 2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Camp YellowCo-Founder2022 — 2023
- FlipkartSoftware Engineer2020 — 2022Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- DunzoSoftware Engineer2018 — 2020Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- SwiggySoftware Engineer2017 — 2018Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- VMwareMember Of Technical Staff2015 — 2016Greater Bengaluru Area
Skills & more
Java17Spring Framework8Spring Boot4C15Node.js4JavaScript4Spring MVCRabbitMQ8Redis2Data Structures8Product Security6Networking8
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AlgorithmsLanguages English · Hindi · Marathi
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Akshay Megharaj?
- Akshay has spent over eight years as a software engineer at Indian consumer startups including Flipkart and Swiggy, where he was an early engineer on Flipkart Commerce Cloud.
- Where does Akshay Megharaj work?
- Akshay Megharaj is Founder of Wuri.
- What companies did Akshay Megharaj found?
- Akshay Megharaj founded Wuri.
- Where did Akshay Megharaj go to school?
- Akshay Megharaj studied at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (B. E. (Hons.), Computer Science).
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,773
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Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani mafia50
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Flipkart mafia16
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Same school
Also attended Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani143
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Shared employers
Also worked at ThoughtSpot16
Quentin ClarkInvestment Team at General CatalystJamie MontgomeryCo-Founder & Managing Partner at March Capital PartnersJai DasPartner, President at Sapphire VenturesLak AnanthGlobal Managing Partner at Next47Ravi MhatrePartner and Co-Founder at Lightspeed Venture PartnersJames EphratiPartner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Also worked at Wuri (YC W24)1
Also worked at Flipkart43
Binny BansalCo-founder of Flipkart; co-founder of PhonePe and OppDoorSandeep PatilPartner, Head of Asia-Pacific at QED InvestorsNitin SethChief Executive Officer (Incedo) at Mission HoldingsManpreet RatiaManaging Partner, Portfolio Success at Jungle VenturesNishit GargPartner, Asia at RTP GlobalBabu VittalPeople & HR Practice Leader at RTP Global
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